Kyon

Conworld project by PFJ.
KYON
Kyon. Hound's planet. Tossed to the outskirts of its galaxy, far from other stars.
About
Status	actively developed as of 7.02.2021
Founded in	2015
Scale	Multiple players 12 at peak
Led by	CanisV, Henryk Pruthenia, Borlach(2020+, de facto) - Henryk Pruthenia (2016-2019) - CanisV (2015-2016)
Founder	CanisV
Purpose	Thought experiment on evolution of cultures under vastly different night sky
Space Engine usage	Yes :: 0.9.7.3 beta Planet RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 5 (modified)
About the world
Fiction	high realism (real laws of physics) - exceptions: terrestrial biology on foreign planet - those project continuations which go far beyond the contemporary
Imitation of Earth	low, a priori project
Origin of life	panspermia (approx. 1 million years ago) - Ancient Flora mod: flora 0.5 billion years ago) - Ancient Flora+ flora and calcite organissm 0.5 billion years ago
Project focus on times	equivalent of Earth's 1500s - exception: Canis's projects are focused on 1650s, 1750s, 1850s equivalents
Best described countries	Tangia, Aydinir, Neshi Country, Heptapolis, Olsenian Monarchy, Nuaria, Erutia, Tarum, Muria, Shur, Sekht, Pinu

Kyon - a priori conworld jointly managed by members of the Polish Linguistic Forum, founded by CanisV in late 2015 with core idea of contemplating what cultures, mythologies and religions could emerge from a human population living under a dramatically different night sky. The world was carefully picked from Space Engine version 0.9.7.3 beta, as world RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 5 with slight planetary editing, and lies on the outermost edge of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, facing the Milky Way from above. Name of Kyon (Greek for "dog", "hound") refers to nickname of its founder, Canis (Latin for the same).

The world has several rules, it can only contain humans, forbidding fictional creations such as elves or dwarves. Animals are permitted to span across the whole Neogene, permitting Tertiary and Quaternary fauna, especially megafauna, to coexist with the contemporary. Flora can have a longer span. Linguistically and culturally, the project allows only a priori conlangs, although loose connections to Earth cultures are common, usually explained as convergence under similar conditions.

Key cities, valid for year 8973 EK, the common year. Map (in Polish language) used for discussing trade paths.

Kyon as a project assumes its human presence - and life in general - is a result of far-future of star-faring humans who left some of their people in specific spots on Kyon, but since then abandoned it. This aspect was served as irrelevant background trivia and has never been meant to be focused on, although with expansion of some projects, this base assumption became highly controversial, in particular with descriptions undergoing industrial revolution, when Kyon's flora is - under initial rules - only one million years old, and there is insufficient natural deposit of coal, fossil fuels and appreciated building materials such as limestone and marble. Kyon initially was meant to revolve around early 15th century civilisation level, and due to this, several modifications were proposed for individual users to claim:

• Ancient Flora modifies the initial assumption that life on Kyon is 1 million years old by making plantlife present since 500 million years ago. This allows for abundance of fossil fuels and with that, permits industrial revolution to occur.
• Ancient Flora+ adds to the above simple calcite organisms which allow limestone and marble to exist.
• Dynamic Flora modification adds a narrow fictional element to Kyon's plantlife as adaption to Kyon being different planet than Earth, where Kyonian flora would be capable of rapid adaptations to changing conditions and, in hard times, would create survival forms faster and more efficient than what terrestrial plants can do, and would cause very rapid and significant blooms (explosive growth) when conditions become favourable again. This is explained as adaption to Kyon's harsher, but predictable climate as proposed with Canis's "Camel and Shark" climatic model.

An extra modification called Sea of Flames was proposed by Canis on Borlach's territory, which would be an area of massive natural depression on the dried out sea of tectonic origins, similar to what happened on Earth with the Mediterranean. The proposed area has a depth of 5 kilometres and atmospheric pressure of 1770 hPa at salty bottom, making the area one of the most hostile areas on Kyon. Sea of Flames was accepted by Borlach and with that eliminating the threat of conflicts with other players, modification became canonical.

Areas of interest of particular players, September 2020.

Kyon underwent a large expansion of its content when up to twelve people, including many sharpest minds in the community, started quickly claiming plots of planetary topography as their areas of interest, which allowed them to put fictional cultures, nations and countries in there. Project's founder, CanisV, declared somewhere around 2017 that he is unable to keep up with the pace at which the project was being developed, which is when Henryk Pruthenia took over the lead. The project was well led and the spark of activity subsided naturally by 2019. At the start of 2020, Canis jumped back to the near-silent project, which saw large Wiki activity revolving Tangia, his conworld, including many innovations that helped present country articles in an eye-candy fashion, as well as cartographic developments. This, coupled with pandemic-induced focus on worldbuilding, resulted in Kyon project's renaissance, seeing numerous developments, including a mega-article about Aydinir by Borlach and a sophisticated global climate model for the world, as well as a jump in con-cartographic skills.

Astronomy and cosmological context

Parent galaxy of Kyon is not a work of fiction, it is a real galaxy called Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (Scl dSph), about which Wikipedia has its respective article:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptor_Dwarf_Galaxy (English)
• https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karze%C5%82_Rze%C5%BAbiarza (Polish)

The galaxy is 290 000 light years away from the Solar system with Earth in it, in Milky May. It is a small, globular galaxy with old stars, which is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way.

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  Photography of galaxy Sculptor Dwarf made by 2.2-metre large telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESA).

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  Space Engine. Dwarf Sculptor in its neighbourhood (small dot on the right from the Milky Way), on the left, two Magellanic Clouds are visible.

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  Space Engine. Dwarf Sculptor galaxy is in the centre of the vertical green line, on the right two neighbouring galaxies are visible.Fornax Dwarf galaxy is also seen in the vicinity.

Galactic data (Space Engine)

Basic data
English name	Sculptor dSph
Polish name	Karzeł Rzeźbiarza
Catalog	ESO 351-30
A Milky Way satellite, dwarf galaxy.
Basic Data
Name	Sculptor dSph / ESO 351-30
Class	E0
Distance from Earth	290000 ly
Abs. magnitude	-9m.80
Number of stars	52.171 million
Star clusters	1
Nebulae	100

Parent star - Helios

The Sun, together with Hephaestus and Hestia

Sun's location towards its galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy can be explained with the following draft:

Small circle on the left represents Sculptor Dwarf galaxy. The black star is the star around which Kyon revolves, Helios. Large circle distanced on the right is the Milky Way. Due to such positioning, Kyon's inhabitants have a starry side of the night sky, with densely packed stars of its host galaxy, and starless side of the night sky, where the whirlpool of Milky way and two Magellanic clouds are seen, and few stars. Note: graphic is not to scale, and the Milky Way's shield side is seen from Kyon, not its edge.

The star itself is slightly smaller than the Sun, in its younger stage, much like the whole planetary system. It is a singular system with one star of K2 V spectral type, 0.9 solar diameter and the mass of 0.76 M☉, corona temperature of 4626.9°C and luminosity 0.33. Rotation period is 22.8 terrestrial days.

To distinguish Kyon's sun from the Earth's sun, the Kyon's star is called Helios.

Stellar data (Space Engine)

Basic data
Catalog	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1
Class	orange dwarf
Spectral type	K2 V
Abs. magnitude	6m.04
Planets	12
Physical properties
Diameter	1 251 083.625 km (0,89877 D☉)
Mass	0.7553 M☉
Density	1.472 g/cm3
Flattening	0
Effective temperature	4626.9°C
Luminosity	0,32545
Rotation period	22.839 Earth days
Axial tilt	0°00'00".00
Ascending node	56°49'24".49
Age	3.319 billion years
Expected lifespan	28.645 billion years
Gravity on equator	257.64 m/s2 (26.263 g)
Gravity on poles	257.64 m/s2 (26.263 g)
1st cosmic velocity	401.46 km/s
2nd cosmic velocity	567.75 km/s

Planetary system

Helios's planetary system is one of the more interesting ones due to its uniqueness for Space Engine. While the planet Kyon itself was carefully picked, it is a result of coincidence that the system also had several unique properties for systems that could be found in Space Engine 0.9.7.3 beta:

• First planet is a superterra orbiting close to the sun, expelling such large amounts of material that seen from Kyon under right conditions will cause a trail to be seen called the "plume of fire". Hephaestus's trail is thrown off the planet in a similar way comets have their tails, and the reach of this tail extends far, even beyond Kyon's own orbit.
• There are two gas giants orbiting closer to Helios than Kyon does.
• Kyon's main moon, Lykaon, has volcanic activity, likely caused by colossal tidal stress.

Helios's planets are called using names from Greek mythology.

Twelve planets revolve around Helios, listed in the table below. The symbol ⴲ means Earth value (e.g. 1 Mⴲ - 1 Earth mass), symbol ♃ - refers to Jupiter. Time is provided in Earth time, e.g. days in terrestrial days (24h).

Colours in the table indicate:

• yellow - planets that can be seen from Kyon in rare cases such as a solar eclipse.
• blue - planets seen with naked eye
• red - planets not seen with naked eye

#	Photo	Name	Distance	Diameter	Mass	Temperature	Axial tilt	Day+night	Year	Atmosph. pressure	Luminosity magn. + comparison	Satellites	Type	Trivia
1	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 1	Hephaestus	0.031 au	1.63 Dⴲ	3.9 Mⴲ	1098.3°C	0°00'00".01	2.564 days	2.564 days	1.68 atm	-11.16 3x darker than full Moon	0	Scorched desert	Volcanic activity After collision with a large object Plume of fire expelled by stellar wind Tidal lock
2	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 2	Hestia	0.069 au	3.98 Dⴲ	19.7 Mⴲ	373.22°C	0°00'00".01	8.188 days	8.188 days	1.35*105 atm	-11.59 3x darker than full Moon	7	hot ice giant RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 3	Gas giant Tidal lock
3	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 3	Aphrodite	0.128 au	0.18 Dⴲ	0.0074 Mⴲ	294.39°C	0°00'00".01	20.714 days	20.714 days	~0 atm	-3.13 slightly brighter than Mars	3	hot moon	Tidal lock
4	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 4	Hera	0.25 au	4.60 Dⴲ	52.18 Mⴲ	78.64°C	0°00'00".01	50.407 days	50.407 days	1*106 atm	-10.36 10x less than full Moon	14	warm ice giant	Gas giant Tidal lock
5	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 5	Kyon	0.473 au	0.59 Dⴲ*	0.20 Mⴲ*	15°C	31°18'54".36	1.813 days	136.35 days	0.53 atm*	n/a	3	temperate terra	KYON
6	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 6	Zeus	0.868 ayu	11.59 Dⴲ	1.17 M♃	-73.95°C	32°33'31".84	8h 47m 52s 31"	335.77 days	1*106 atm	-9.19 3x darker than #4	52	cold gas giant	Gas giant
7	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 7	Hades	1.247 au	1.84 Dⴲ	4.54 Mⴲ	-86.3°C	15°44'34".12	13h 09m 49s 84"	1.751 years	0.006 atm	-1.26 comp. to Jupiter	8	cold desert
8	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 8	Poseidon	2.764 au	3.6 Dⴲ	23.1 Mⴲ	-167.22°C	6°22'05".07	8h 55m 09s 22"	5.296 years	3.66*105 atm	-1.45 slightly brighter than Jupiter	20	cold ice gas giant	Gas giant
9	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 9	Dionysus	4.904 au	0.27 Dⴲ	0.009 Mⴲ	-182.05°C	32°27'33".44	1.939 days	13.,209 years	~0 atm	7.34 2x brighter than Neptune, not known	1	frozen ice world
10	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 10	Hermes	8.192 au	0,49 Dⴲ	0,05 Mⴲ	-202,6°C	39°04'50".29	1,472 days	26.024 years	0.01 atm	8.24 comp. to Neptune, not known	18	frozen ice world
11	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 11	Nyx	13.287 au	10.06 Dⴲ	0.47 M♃	-219.12°C	52°19'57".06	11h 11m 23s 34"	55.543 years	1*106 atm	3.23 compar. to an average star	73	frozen gas giant
12	RS 8414-5-7-615188-1 12	Hekate	24.636 au	1.31 Mⴲ	1.1 Mⴲ	-212.46°C	118°52'33".55	19h 05m 44s 50"	152.373 years	78.214 atm.	11.32 15x brighter than Pluto, unknown	2	frozen Titan	Dense atmosphere Titan-like

• Planetary dimensions were assumed comparable to Earth's, which eliminates the relevance of those statistics from Space Engine. The table above lists original parameters of Space Engine.

Moons

Below all moons that have a chance to be seen from Kyon with naked eye or a simple telescope are listed. Note, colours here mean moons of the same planet, so here the colours mean something different than in the planetary table above.

#	Photo	Planet	Name	Orbital diameter	Diameter	Rotation period	Brightness magn. + comparison	Trivia
4.1		Hera	Hebe	95 thousand km	0.55 Dⴲ	11h 15 min	-4,91 comp. to Venus	Close to the planet. Likely not distinguishable from it with naked eye.
4.D9		Hera	Enyo	481 thousand km	482 km	5.32 day	1.21
5.1		Kyon	Lykaon	22 thousand km	0.08 Dⴲ (1035 km)	20h 01 min	-12.70 (comparable to full Moon)	Volcanically active
5.D1		Kyon	Kynylagmos	90 thousand km	32 km	6.9 days	-6.15
5.D2		Kyon	Thoukter	130 thousand km	58 km	12.13 days	-7.19
6.1		Zeus	Heracles	281 tys. km	0.57 Dⴲ	21h 27 min	-2.17
6.2		Zeus	Perseus	433 thousand km	0.65 Dⴲ	1.7 days	-2.69
6.D9		Zeus	Minos	2.2 million km	482 km	19.8 days	4.26
6.D43		Zeus	Rhadamanthus	3.9 million km	494 km	59.9 days	4.17
6.D44		Zeus	Aeacus	4.7 million km	533 km	61.5 days	3.98
7.1		Hades	Persephone	109 thousand km	0.38 Dⴲ	1.94 days	1.40
8.1		Poseidon	Amphitrite	121 thousand km	0.7 Dⴲ	1 day	2.84

Other moons

All other moons with a diameter less than 1000 km.

#	Diameter	Brightness magn.	Notes
11.1	1.13 Dⴲ	8.53
11.2	0.63 Dⴲ	9.80
11.3	0.65 Dⴲ	10.19
11.6	0.09 Dⴲ	13.97
11.7	0.21 Dⴲ	12.15
11.10	0.11 Dⴲ	13.66
12.1	0.09 Dⴲ	16.61

Kyon as a world and a planet

Conworld's actions take place on planet Kyon, where water-based life exists. Due to cosmological location of Helios as a star system, Kyon has two sides of the night sky:

• starry, where the observer sees tightly packed stars of its parent galaxy, the Sculptor Dwarf;
• starless, where instead of the stars, a large whirlpool of the Milky Way and two Magellanic Clouds are visible.

Depending on time, season and location, humans on Kyon can see the above in various combinations and at differing angles. The simulator, Space Engine, showed that in some places (northern parts of the planet) the night sky was completely dark for weeks, without any features. Due to the fact that Helios is not the last star from the galactic centre, always some 3 to 10 stars are visible even on the starless side, under ideal conditions. Night sky is affected by more factors, among them the Plume of Fire (blown off Hephaestos by stellar wind). As another example, south-equatorial parts (Tangia country), when simulation date was set to early January 2015, for a few weeks the starless part and Milky Way in it did not set on the horizon at all, instead, it half-sunk under it, rotated, and partially rose again.

Unusual angles at which bodies revolve are seen on the graphic above.
Red line indicates how Kyon orbits Helios. The picture presents large axial tilt of Kyon, and puzzling angles at which its three moons orbit the planet,
especially considering proximity of Lykaon.

Astrophysical data of Kyon generated by Space Engine was ignored. Size, gravity, atmospheric pressure and composition, humidity, average temperature, stellar flux, all were copied from Earth. There were, however, very significant differences:

• Kyon revolves around the sun once every 136.35 Earth days - that is the year on Kyon, shorter than on Earth.
• Kyon revolves around its own axis once every 1.813 Earth days, about 44.5 Earth hours - that is the day on Kyon, longer than on Earth.
• Axial tilt is larger than on Earth and is 31°18'54".36, larger than on Earth, affecting seasons.
• Kyon rotates retrograde, backwards towards the rotation direction of its star and the other planets.
• Moon Lykaon orbits at an odd angle and much closer to Kyon than Moon does to Earth, rising twice on the Sky within the same day, and causing enormous tidal effects. The effects are recognised, but largely ignored by the community, or it would render the planet inhospitable. One attempt at calculating their effects resulted in 100 metre tall oceanic tides which would spread salt very far onto the shores, however, peculiar orbital angle at which Lykaon revolves around Kyon makes any calculation attempts futile.

Surface map of Kyon.

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  Kyon and Lykaon.

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  View from cosmos on sacred Férhan mountain and the Emerald Lake in Aydinir.

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  Tangia seen from cosmos, on the left - Lykaon, both the moon and a night itself are important for this country.

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  Hurricane crossing the northern parts of the continent.

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  Nešši Country and the white crescent.

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  From Tangian summits there is always view on several other mountain ranges.

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  Rise of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud watched from the Nešši Country.

Kynography - major topografic features

Words "geography" and "kynography" are both used to refer to Kyon's geography, as "geo-" generally means Earth and in astronomy is used to describe our Earth. Kyon has a Pangean-style topography with a supercontinent simply called "Kyon", large or small islands, and a large ocean called "Panthalassan" (Polish: "Wszechocean", meaning "all-ocean").

The one continent is divided into the following areas:

• Arctosia (arctos - "bear"), the Arctic regions.
• Great Northern Desert, largely uninhabited.
• Salty Sea, where oldest and most advanced civilisations such as Septupolis, Trugia and Aydinir lie.
• Great Southern Desert, divided from the Antarctic by southwest and southeast barrier mountains.
• Spheniscia (spheniscos - "penguin"), the Antarctic areas, where Nuaria lies.
• Olsenia - advanced nation in large southeastern isles.
• Muria - northweastern isles' inhabitants.
• Canisia - warm and tropical, where Tangia and Sekht lie.
• Neshi Sea - where highly advanced seafaring nation of the Neshi lies.
• Devia - islands, technically another continent, where various tribes live, gradually colonised by the Neshis.
• Panthalassa - grand ocean.

Kyon's early draft of climatic zones. No key in English exists to it, and the map is outdated.

Camel and Shark - climate

How a Hadley cell is created. Sunlight blasts the equator, humid air expands and soars, lowering pressure at ground and bringing rain. That air overflows north and south as much as it can before it sinks, dried, creating high pressure areas.

Kyon's climate was modelled a few times. Currently, the most advanced model is called "Camel and Shark". No matter which model is taken into account, there is a number of facts that need to be remembered when discussing Kyon's climate:

• Kyon has a supercontinent. This is a large barrier to oceanic winds and a large radiative zone. Its climate is different than modern Earth's, it is more similar to Earth's climate when it had a supercontinent - see Pangea.
• Kyon rotates slower than Earth. Its day lasts about 43.5 Earth hours, not 24 hours. This transfers more solar energy onto any illuminated area, while Kyon's winds and oceanic currents have less energy.
• Kyon revolves faster around its star than Earth. Seasons change sooner.
• Kyon has a large axial tilt, 31°18'54".36 instead of 23°26′11.9″. Seasons will be more dramatic, polar day/night zones will go further, and even the equator will experience seasons.

Kyon's range of polar day and night extend much farther than on Earth.

"Camel and Shark" model accept that a rotating planet will inevitably have its troposphere divided into several zones. Equatorial area receives the most heat, its illuminated surface rises up, lowering pressure at ground level and raising it at stratosphere. That excess air will flow sideways proportional to power of solar flux and after it cools and slides down, dried, will flow down, creating a high pressure zone at the tropics. That is called a Hadley cell. Because Kyon's days are stronger, but rotation speed is slower, the Hadley cell is larger than on Earth. Contrary to Artifexian, a popular YouTuber, in his video about this subject, who claimed that a planet rotating twice as slow as Earth would have two (northern-southern) cell, actual academic documents appear to deny this being the likely result. Ithaca, New York's Cornell University document by Yohai Kaspi and Adam P. Showman titled "Atmospheric dynamics of terrestrial exoplanets over a wide range of orbital and atmospheric parameters" with trustworthy methodology explained that as rotation speed slows down, the Hadley cells become almost global, which indeed happens on places such as Venus and Titan, but those objects also rotate not twice as slow as Earth, but hundreds of times slower. Kyon is in an intermediate stadium between those and thus it has a large Hadley cell, but not by any means a global one.

Kyon's Hadley cell is bigger because of its slow rotation speed. This pushes the tropics, where dry high pressure areas exist, much farther from the equator.

What is responsible for the biggest influence on Kyon's climate is its large axial tilt of 31°18'54".36. Due to it, even equatorial areas experience some seasons. Those seasons are shorter than on Earth, but stronger. Something called "thermal equator" bounces north and south to a much farther degree on Kyon than on Earth. A thermal equator is the belt of the most powerfully illuminated area by the Sun, a phenomenon which controls how climate works.

The titular "camel" and "shark" refer to a proposed massive oceanic oscillation, somewhat similar to La Niña - El Niño oscillation. This means that there exists an huge area of oceanic low pressure on average every two Kyonian years (but possibly up to about ten) travels between the Sekhtonese peninsula and the Atirai island. When the former happens, the circumequatorial flow of air is unobstructed and becomes global, pumping into the Kyon's otherwise dried continent, specifically its equatorial areas, large amounts of humidity, to which dynamic flora reacts with explosive bloooms, and sands rapidly overgrow with jungles. Due to this being a humid phase for most of Kyon, it's called the "shark" phase. When the latter happens, called the "camel" phase, grand oceanic central low pressure area retreats above the Atirai island, locking moisture there to such degree that it would reverse global winds against planetary rotation, as it likely happened on Earth once. This would result in dramatic drying of equatorial Kyon into a desert, and for dynamic flora to retreat into survival forms.

Grand central oceanic low pressure area shifts from Sekhtonese peninsula to Atirai island every two years on average.
Shark phase pumps moisture onto the continent's equator, to which Kyon's dynamic flora reacts with an explosive bloom into a jungle belt.
Camel's phase reverses major winds against the direction of planetary rotation, turning the continent into a desert.

Kyon's climatic modelling has a major flaw, it behaves as if with movement of thermal equator, Coriolis force would travel along. That is a mistake, as thermal equator is dependent on location of the greatest solar flux, while the Coriolis force is depended only on planetary's physical rotation. That error is accepted, but not corrected, as computing the result of a collision of migrating thermal equator with Coriolis force would require a much higher sophistication than needed for the conworld.

All those factors combined result in large climatic changes to weather in individual areas:

References for climate

1. Cambel icon: icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
2. https://medium.com/universe-factory/climate-modeling-101-4544e00a2ff2
3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230890352_Climate_of_the_Supercontinent_Pangea
4. https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/cpcp/parrish_93_sm.pdf
5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X19300127
6. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236617752_Correlation_between_global_solar_radiation_and_air_temperature_in_Asturias_Spain

Countries

Countries in general are divided onto levels of civilisational advancement. The division is as follows:

	Comparison	Example of administration	Example of military	Civilisational level	Description	Examples
Level 0	Animals	Various	Fangs, claws and venom	None	Below any human culture	None exist
Level 1	Primitive cultures	Tribal structure	Stone weapons, wooden or of found metal (swords, spears), glass arrowheads, poisoned arrows	No metalworking skills. Simple mud huts, control of fire, basic tools allowing to work with skins, ropes and bows. Achievements not exceeding achievements of most animals except for speech, fire control and ropemaking.	Simple hunting-gathering and nomadic cultures.	Pinu peoples
Level 2	Simple civilisation	Tribal structure or intertribal ties	Metal tools, arrowheads and knives from glass.	Writing. Simple temples, relevant totems, monuments and figurines. Mixed agricultural-hunting-gathering economy.	Tribes on a higher development level with well developed trade.	Wuzang
Level 3	Civilisation	Harsh feudalism with princes and monarchs on top	Highly developed army with its own spy network. Political structures and gendarmerie. Simple, wooden siege machines, first impressive stone fortresses. War navy.	Simple schools. Economy based primarily on agriculture and taxation or tribute, to a lower extent on trade. Sewage system might appear.	Comparable to western Europe of 9th century.	Kavelia
Level 4	Highly developed civilisation	Parliament might appear	Serious siege machinese. Cannons and primitive firearms, bombs. Well developed navy. Large fortresses.	Education and schools on a very high level, serious exploration of the world, contacts between researchers across the globe. Well developed trade and services, as well as medicine. Postal system, fireworks, network of roads.	Civilisation comparable to Arabic world's of 13th century.	Sekht
Level 5	Peak of civilisation	Efficiently functioning state and administration	Powerful army and navy, firearms of larger meaning. Simple artillery, including siege ones (mortars).	Accessible books, well developed cartography, advancements in medicine. Some basic human rights, intense works over chemistry, astronomy and engineering. The peak's a simple steam engine (still without purpose).	Civilisation comparable to level of western colonial empires of 15th-16th centuries.	Tangia

The table above describes what could be seen in year 8973 EK. CanisV goes further with this and described his countries of 9509 EK (later age of discovery), 9640 EK (age of colonial empires) and 9750 EK (peak of colonial empires), up to speculations of 10000 EK (industrial revolution).

Kyon in year 8973 EK and its players. Note: Trugia is missing from the picture, it would be to the west of "Siedmiomieście" (Heptapolis).

Best developed and most relevant countries (class A projects)

List of countries for year 8973 EK is contained below.

Level	Country	Emblem	Location	Population	Area	Capital	Religion	Region	Climate	Currency	Import	Export	Manager
R3	Tangia year 8973 EK			20 000 000	1 150 430 km²	Naratai	Karaism	Canisia Western Kyon	Tropical and warm	aotai (AHT)	gold, wood, food, medicines, textiles, raw materials, slaves	rubber, optics, pearls, ships, bones, maps, amber, slaves, luminescent fluids, processed goods: armour, ropes, mirrors, vessels, wheels, barrels, chests, building components	CanisV
R3	Aydinir			35 000 000	9 076 545 km²	Djyazhoar	Karism	Central Kyon Salty Sea	Hot desert	adrash (ADR)	rubber, decorations, salt, paper, optics, iron, slaves, luminescent fluids, gunpowder, porcelain	medical knowledge, medicines, ḱagozhi herb, ayiritana, Aydinirian wines, carpets and incenses, saffron, perfumes, marble, gemstones, crystal, lapis lazuli, Ozarian ebony, Gąruwan wood, textiles and sails, incenses, myrrh, agricultural shoots, xerophytic food, slaves, produce: Aydiniarin, Mhasal, Taharen, Wares, Sarnak, Mnari, Affair	Borlach
R3	Nešši Country			43 250 000	1 911 395 km²	Melekē	Kērosutoccu	North	Temperate, marine	potatoes[1]	hide and bones, meat, dyes, precious stones, exotic wood, technology, food, plants	gold and silver, other precious minerals, ores, agricultural shoots, food, wood, furniture, furs, sculptures, clothing, dyes, smelting products, technologies	Henryk Pruthenia†
R2	Septupolis			3 384 450	10 000 km²	de iure none de facto Zhanzhou	Bohenism	Central Kyon	Hot, humid	1 Pù (園 pù) = 8 bân (園十) = 64 kàp (園百)			Widsið†
R3	Olsenian Monarchy			18 000 000	5 045 265 km²	Kozon	Łăpism	East	Temperate-cool	pyd	rubber, paper, luminescent fluids, gunpowder, Aydinirian herbs, carpets, incenses, optical instruments	charcoal, metal ores, metal produce (furnaces, pots, vessels, cutlery, decorations), wood, wooden produce (furniture, decorations, daily utilities), pasteurised and powdered food, chemical and medical knowledge, musical instruments (blown, with strings)	Pluur
R3	Surd Dependence of Olsenian Monarchy			200 000	142 179 km²	Surd	Łăpism	South	Cool	pyd	food, rubber, paper, luminescent fluid, gunpowder, sails, clothing	charcoal, wood, wooden produce (furniture, decorations, daily utilities), pasteurised and powdered food, musical instruments (blown, with strings)	Pluur
R3	Muria			25 000 000	4 258 118 km²	Watan	Religion of the Murs	East	Temperate marine	?	slaves, food, medicines, luxury products	copper, silver, paper, gunpowder, navigation instruments, tea, glass, porcelain	Spiritus
R1	Pinu			250 000	1 058 701 km²	Komi		Canisia	Hot, humid, equatorial	seashells gemstones	weapons, vessels, completed products	food, wood, metals	Canis
R2	Buania			?	900 087 km²	Saboat		Canisia	Hot, warm, temperate	hoañ	weapons, infrastructure, decorations, food	wood, food, keha	Kazimierz, CanisV
R1	Nuaria			547 801	2 242 382 km²	Kuru		Spheniscia (Antarctic)	Frigid antarctic	Skon, masoq, lan	food, fire fuel, shipbuilding materials	gold, silver, platinum, gemstones (diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc.)	CanisV
R2	Shur			13 600 000 (estimated)	1 040 737 km²	Tuwwa	Enenke Religion	Canisia	Temperate	Enenke sikur	infrastructural solutions, paper, spices, glass, tropical food (speculation)	wood, food of temperate climate (speculation)	Spiritus

† - means player is no longer in the community and isn't likely to return.

Lesser developed country projects (class B projects)

Poorly described countries.

Name	Author	Last update	Map	Commentary
Azenia / Hwatung	Widsið†	2017-11-25	No map	Weakly described
Bolosia	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 1 edit.
Jaugria	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 1 edit.
Erutia	Ulfurinn	2019-08-28	No global map.	Looked promising. Insufficiently developed.
Giadur	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 3 tiny edits.
Ilirion	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Seemed promising. Insufficiently developed.
Isharia	Caraig†, F1req	2020-09-03	No global map.	The entire article literally was just one sentence.
Kaalpas	Ulfurinn	2017-11-14	No global map.	The entire article literally was just one sentence.
Kadonia	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 1 edit.
Kaurads	Pluur, Borlach	2017-12-02	No global map.	The entire article literally was just three sentences.
Kǫl	Pluur	2018-04-01	No global map.	The entire article literally was just two sentences.
Kunieks	Pluur	2020-06-18	No global map.	The entire article literally was just five sentences.
Lucia	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-12-17	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 1 edit.
Mokutia	joint-venture CanisV and Borlach Initially: Caraig†	2017-07-15	No global map	Seemed promising, developed. Great country coat of arms.
Sanzhenia	Henryk Pruthenia†	2017-07-23	Useless map, unintelligible	Miserable quality article, just 1 edit.
Sekht	CanisV	2017-06-27	Used to have a poor map.	Bad article, planned for later 2021 for rebuilding.
Shishenia	Pluur	2018-03-24	No global map.	Looked promising, neglected, incomplete.
Tarum	Widsið†	2018-01-27	No map whatsoever.	Looked promising, high quality descriptions. Incomplete, neglected, and abandoned.
Trugia	Tqr	2017-09-11	No map whatsoever.	Incomplete and abandoned.
Vertinia	F1req	Actively developed	No map whatsoever.	Incomplete, lots of missing descriptions.

Stubs and projects of doubtful canonical value (class C projects)

No article at all. Information is scarce. Canonical value is doubtful.

Name	Author
Aralezeus	Borlach
Âng Qo'or	Borlach
Balashasks	Henryk Pruthenia†
Czechars	Borlach
Jashir	Borlach
Emnaegnir	Borlach
Esmia	Tqr
Harenia	Widsið
Harrun	Borlach
Kavelia	Borlach
Keyren	Borlach
Meravia	Widsið†
Mitenia	Henryk Pruthenia†
Nuapaq	Henryk Pruthenia†
Piri	Spiritus
Poits	Tqr
Raľuhhruş	Henryk Pruthenia†
Rikkadan	Borlach
Hundredlakes	Widsið†
Surandral	Borlach
Talonbat	Borlach
Tjevangono	ArturJD†, Henryk Pruthenia†
Trugian Federation	Tqr
Lomarian Union	Borlach
Free Kingdoms	Borlach
Zamb	Tqr
Northern Union	Henryk Pruthenia†